Destination indicator



Aug. 4, 1925. 1,548,208

H. B. REISIG ER DESTINATI ON INDICATOR Filed Feb. 26, 1924 A TTORNEYw- Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,548,208 PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY B. REISIGER, OF FLUSHING, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR 'IIIO THE HUNTER ILLUMI NATED CAR SIGN COMPANY, OF FLUSHING, NEW YORK, A COPARTNERSHIP GOM- POSED OF LYTLE J. HUNTER, FENLEY HUNTER, AND LYTLE GALE HUNTER.

DESTINATION INDICATOR.

Application filed February 26, 1924. Serial No. 695,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY B. Rnrsrenn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Destination Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to improve- .ments in destination indicators, such as are commonly used in street and railway cars to indicate the desired information to the passengers or the like.

My invention will be best understood from the illustrative arrangement hereinafter described and shown in the annexed drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a vertical cross-section of an illustrative form of apparatus; Fig. 2 is a view of one side with the outer cover removed; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 -3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 1 is an enlarged section taken on the line 4-4: of Fig. 3.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the several views.

In the illustrative embodiment, I have shown a typical form of destination indicator, inwhich a casing 10 contains a pair of rollers 11, 12, mounted in suitable bearings and provided respectively with gears 13, 14, meshing with a gear 15, actuated by bevel gearing 16, controlled by a handle 17, so that by the rotation of the handle 17 in either of the desired directions, the rollers 11 and 12 may be turned in the same direction in unison. The handle 17 may be held in the desired position by the engagement of its inner end 18 with the notched disc 19.

On either end of each of the rollers 11 and 12 is a wide flange 20 against which the edge of the curtain 21 carrying the destination signs may bear when it is wound on the rollers 11 and 12.

In order to make this curtain 21 run true as it is wound on one roller and unwound from the other and back again, as is the usual manner of use of such devices, I provide each of the opposite edges of the curtain 21 with a strip of flexible material, such strip being sufficiently flexible in a direction at right-angles to its surface to permit it to be wound freely around the rollers 11 and 12 and stiff enough in a direction at right-angles to its edges to prevent bending in that direction under any normal use. Such a strip I have illustrated at 22, being held in a loop 23 formed at the edges of the curtain 21 by turning over the edge and stitching, as at 24. The ends of the strip 22 may be fastened in the ends of the curtain 21 in any suitable manner to prevent the relative longitudinal shifting of the strip 22 and the curtain 21.

With the arrangement which I have described, the strip 22 serves to guide the curtain 21 by its contact with the flanges 20 of the rollers 11 and 12, so that the curtain 21 may be run back and forth over the rollers without running askew, regardless of the length of the curtain to be carried on these rollers.

By the arrangement which I have described, it will be noted that the metallic strip 22 is held in the curtain in such a manner that all metallic fasteners or the like for attaching the strip to the curtain are obviated and that the strip may be cheaply applied to the curtain. At the same time, the appearance of the curtain is not affected by the presence of the strip.

It will be noted that the arrangement which I have described is merely illustrative and that the embodiment of my invention may be widely varied. For instance, the strip 22 may be made of thin. flexible metal, such as brass, or of celluloid. The important thing is that it shall be of a material and shape so that it can bend freely as it is wound around the relatively small diameters of the rollers, and, at the same time, will be Wide enough to give lateral stiffness to prevent the curtain 21 from running out of true.

While I have described my illustrative form as a destination indicator, it will be obvious that my invention may be used for any purpose in which it is desired to run a curtain back and forth between a pair of rollers, and, at the same time, to keep its edges in alignment with its normal path of travel.

I claim:

1. A destination indicator comprising a pair of rollers each having end flanges, a curtain mounted on said rollers and having a longitudinal series of transversely arranged names, means to rotate the rollers to wind the curtain from one roller to another, said curtain being provided at its edges with 5 the surface of the curtain bearing the names.

QQA destination indicator comprising a pair of rollers each having end flanges. curtain mounted on said rollers and having W a longitudinal series of transversely arranged names, means to rotate the rollers to Wind the curtain from one roller to another, said curtain being provided at each of its edges With a continuous closed loop for the enlfi tire length of the curtain, and a thin and relatively Wide strip of flexible material extend ing through each of said loops With its Width extending in a direction substantially parallel with the surface out the curtain bearing the names. I

A destination indicator comprising a pair of rollers each having end flanges, a curtain mounted on said rollers and having a longitudinal series of transversely arranged names, means to rotate the rollers to Wind the curtain from one roller to another, said curtain being provided at each of its side edges with a loop formed of and integral with the curtain and extending throughout length of the curtain and a thin and relatively Wide strip of flexible material extending through each of said loops with its Width extending in a direction substan tially parallel with the surface of the cur tain bearing the names.

HARRY B, REEISIGER. 

